Often, I feel low and suffer bouts of depression, and this affects my work and relationships. How should I overcome this?

Depression makes you cynical; it is deeply self-damaging. Usually, depressed people will not cause harm to others; they will only hurt themselves. A depressed person is always trying to cause damage to himself. It is a weapon, but his weapon is not going to be used to chop somebody up. He’ll chop himself and make you feel miserable; that’s the way of the depressed. Why will a person go on hurting himself? Generally, it is to get sympathy. For a depressed person, normal sympathy is not sufficient; somebody should bleed with him.